Edward Watson

Edward (Ted), won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music to study clarinet and composition. There he won the Eve Kische Memorial Prize for woodwind performance. As a professional clarinettist he has performed in the fields of orchestral, chamber and theatre music and has played in many of the world’s major cities.

His orchestral compositions and arrangements have been performed by the Royal Liverpool Orchestra and Choir and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta.

Chamber music compositions and arrangements have been performed by the Nash Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, the Midland Chamber Players and English Serenata who have recorded and broadcast his arrangements and chamber works.

Works for Brass Band include: The Turning Seasons (Black Dyke- Radio 3), and arrangements of Walton’s Henry V and Battle of Britain Suite (Black Dyke), Richard III Suite (William Fairey). The première of his arrangement of Façade was narrated by Lady Walton.

He has written for radio, television and theatre and his CD’s include:
Summer’s End- English Serenata / Ian Partridge / Niamh Cusack / Gabriel Woolf
Dick Whittington- Benjamin Luxon / Belmont Ensemble
Henry V / As You Like It (Walton/Watson) English Serenata
A Muse of Fire- Black Dyke Mills Brass Band (Music Services Industry Award for best CD. in its class 1996)
Who Is He? - Yorkshire Building Society Brass Band / Ian Partridge
Facade - Lady Walton and the Black Dyke Mills Brass Band
A Celtic Springtime - Barkham Harp Quartet

Featured composer for the Stratford upon Avon Festival of English Music.

For many years Edward Watson was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and is a tutor of clarinet at Birmingham Conservatoire.